Best interview ever. Bisexuality, shagging the queen, fancying Adam Ant, the wheelbarrow position, cunnilingus, losing his virginity, period sex — and eating live ladybirds. Welcome to probably the best interview ever given by a musician, courtesy of Damon Albarn. The Blur frontman may have confessed last year to taking heroin. A lot of his interview was about sticking his tongue in cheeks. Some of his chat was about how he used to eat live ladybirds.
Damon Albarn I was more autistic than artistic. I was extremely slow in learning to walk and talk. I used to get away with murder though, as I had big blue eyes and a blonde fringe. Throughout my childhood, I felt a bit like the kid from The Tin Drum.
Not that I was a psychotic midget, but I had this amazing clarity of perception about everything that was going on around me. I suppose that was the direct result of an alternative upbringing. My dad was an environmental sculptor. In our back garden in Leytonstone we had this foot pea-pod made out of fibreglass.
Things like that gave me a different perspective from most kids of my age. L As a kid did you find yourself doing odd things like staring at wardrobes hoping you could will them to move? The oddest thing I did was eat ladybirds, which I did up until the age of But there was never any chewing. That was never on the table, or in the bed for that matter. I never went through that latent homosexual phase. I never even thought of sticking a carrot up my bottom or anything like that.
Always have been. D I was never that experimental when it came to wanking. I never went at it with raw liver or a loaf of bread with the middle gouged out. The only wanking anecdote I have is that there was this buzz at our school about bottles of Vosene.
